Clean cooking, designed to how people already live.
Most clean energy solutions ask Tanzanians to change — change fuel, change infrastructure, change habits. Chabri Energy asks for none of that. We build the fuel and the stove that fit into the kitchens, budgets, and lives Tanzanians already have.
Charcoal persists because alternatives have failed. Not because people are ignorant.
Gas requires infrastructure most of Tanzania doesn't have. Electricity requires Tanesco to cooperate. Behavior-change campaigns require people to prioritize climate over lunch.
Chabri starts somewhere different. With the fire already burning, and the question of how to make it better without asking anything difficult in return.
This is why, across Tanzania, almost everything has changed — cement houses, iron roofs, boda bodas — except how people cook. The infrastructure caught up. The kitchen never did. We're closing that gap.
Most solutions fix one side. We built both.
A clean stove with dirty fuel still pollutes. Good briquettes in a leaky jiko still waste money. Chabri manufactures the fuel and the stove — engineered as a pair, optimized together.
KuniSMART — the fuel. Made from agricultural and timber waste. No trees cut.
JikoSMART — the stove. Fires like a gas cylinder. Refills from what's already around you.
The fuel. The stove. One complete system.
KuniSMART
Made from sawdust, timber waste, and agricultural byproducts then compressed into fuel that burns longer and hotter than charcoal, with significantly less smoke.
- Burns longer and hotter than charcoal
- Made from local waste, not forests
- Minimal smoke
- Household and institutional sizes
- Sh 500 per kilo
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JikoSMART
A gasifier stove that converts biomass into gas energy first, then charcoal — extracting maximum heat from minimum fuel. Powered by a small fan running on home electricity or solar.
- Fires like a gas cylinder
- Almost no smoke
- Works with KuniSMART for peak performance
- Household and institutional configurations
- Sh 70,000
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This is not a pilot project.
Every stove installed and every briquette sold means cleaner air, fewer trees cut, lower fuel costs, and jobs created locally — in communities where clean energy has historically arrived last.
Stoves deployed across the Lake Zone
Tons of KuniSMART produced to date
Presidential innovation award, 2025
Institutions currently supplied
Vetted by institutions that don't back companies lightly.
In 2025, H.E. President Samia Suluhu Hassan awarded Chabri Energy TZS 50 million at the Africa Energy Summit — recognition of a system already working at scale across the Lake Zone. That recognition sits alongside the institutional partnerships that have funded, advised, and tested our work.
FUNGUO Programme: Active investee of Tanzania's flagship innovation funding programme — implemented by UNDP, co-funded by the European Union and UK Aid.
The Government of Tanzania: Partner in clean energy empowerment programmes deploying KuniSMART and JikoSMART to women across rural Lake Zone communities.
Varem Development AG: Long-term international development partner backing Chabri's growth.
Built for the people who cook every day.
Schools & Institutions: Chabri already supplies schools, prisons, and institutions across the Lake Zone — with capacity to deliver nationally for the right partnerships. For kitchens feeding hundreds daily, the fuel savings are immediate and compound over time.
Government & Development Partners: Chabri has deployed stoves through government clean energy empowerment programmes, reaching women in rural communities across the Lake Zone. The supply chain and distribution infrastructure are already in place.
Food Entrepreneurs: Mama lishe. Chip vendors. Caterers. Consistent heat, lower daily fuel cost, less smoke in a working kitchen — the reason Chabri has become the stove of choice for commercial food vendors across Mwanza.
Households: Clean briquettes priced like the charcoal families already buy — and a stove that also burns what's freely around the home. Clean fire, without changing the family budget.
What people say.
"We've been using KuniSMART at the school for two years now. They burn longer and cleaner than charcoal or firewood, and we've cut our cooking fuel costs significantly — which matters for our budget. The smoke is also much less, which is safer for the children. I would recommend KuniSMART to any school or institution looking to reduce costs without compromising on safety."
Benjamin F. Ephraim
Head-teacher, Rodan Primary School
Ready to make the switch?
Call, message, or visit us in Kisesa. We're ready when you are.